Re: Registration

["Marsee Skidmore" <heyred@email.msn.com>]

>On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 06:56:14 -0800 "Marsee Skidmore" writes:
>>I'm designing for all video and no viewports. Not only are the hull
>>penetrations much easier, but the pilot won't have to crawl on his
>>belly like a reptile. And the spherical pressure hull can be placed
>>amidships, with wanton disregard for forward visibility.
>
>What's the power requirements for your approach?
>
I don't know, but I suspect that the power suctioned by illumination will be
roughly equivalent for video and viewport, and that it will dwarf the power
requirement of the camera.

>What cameras do you plan to use?

Whatever happens to be commercially available when I win the lottery or
retire.
>
>>As for IR, that's an interesting idea. I think IR illumination will
>>backscatter just like visible light. Doesn't water absorb the red end
>>of the spectrum first?
>
>Yeah, you're right.  I think the IR would turn out to be disappointing
>except
>in very clear water.  However, it might work if one could project a flare
>some distance from the sub, and silhouette objects in the water.  This
>gives us the
>image of a tiny sub cruising along submerged, firing flares like a
>missile sub.

Cool.
>
>
>
>Michael B. Holt
>Oregon Hill, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.
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